Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Doors open 6:30 pm - complimentary pizza, wine, refreshments
Reading starts aprx 7 pm
followed by audience conversation
$12 per ticket - audience limit is 15 VIP seats on our Back Porch.
This performance will be outside under our covered patio. In case of inclement weather, we will be inside. Books by the authors will be for sale. Poetry Playhouse gallery and bookstore will be open.
We pair up two poets to share their latest work (this portion is recorded for our YouTube archive available free to the public) and follow with a conversation. This is a time for you to ask your own questions and to get to know the authors better as they share their artistic process, their writing, and what they’re up to. A personal approach - and of course, books by the authors are also for sale, and for signing.
This is an in-person event with limited seating. Price of event includes pizza from local Placitas Pizza, wine, and assorted beverages. (We order one pizza with gluten free/cauliflower crust, and have veggie pizza options).
Scott Wiggerman joins us from Albuquerque. He is a retired librarian and a late-life artist who coordinates the annual Poets Picnic in Albuquerque. His poetry focuses on many forms—not only ghazals and golden shovels, but also sonnets, haiku, and haibun. He teaches workshops on different poetic forms and is active in the literary community. Scott is a former chapter chair for the NM State Poetry Society. His latest book is Beginning and Ending with Emily: Ghazals and Golden Shovels, published by New Mexico’s Casa Urraca press.
Scott Wiggerman plays with two poetic forms—ghazals and golden shovels—and draws inspiration from Emily Dickinson poems to create fresh works entirely his own. https://casaurracapress.com/bookstore/p/beginning-and-ending-with-emily-poems-scott-wiggerman
Jonathan Price joins us from Albuquerque and is the incoming New Mexico State Poetry Society Chapter Chair. Jonathan worked in conceptual art and concrete poetry, showing in co-op galleries and museums in New York. While living in Soho, he wrote articles on video art for The Nation, Art News, Esquire, and Harper’s, and published books on theater, writing, and video art. For four years, he ran the Shakespeare Institute, a summer program for teachers and graduate students, in conjunction with the University of Bridgeport and the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut.
He quit the art world to join Apple Computer in 1982, where the introduction of MacPaint was a life-changing event for him. He created a style guide used for many years by technical communicators--How to Write an Apple Manual, later published in several editions under the title, How to Communicate Technical Information. He also led a guerilla movement within Apple to create the first online help systems, using HyperCard, a forerunner of the links we take for granted on the web.
His art combines high-tech imagery with poetry. His series of digital art pieces on the struggles that migrants face as they come north to cross the Rio Grande, documented in his book, The Liquid Border: The Rio Grande from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico, has appeared in more than two dozen museums and art galleries throughout the U.S. He has written a tribute to Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji, accompanied by a digital remixing of those ukiyo-e prints, sprinkled with text chunks commenting on the artist's work, in Viewing Hokusai Viewing Mount Fuji. In Icons: Poems Price examines computer icons, reminisces about creating the first graphic interfaces at Apple in the 1980s, and dialogs with the contemporary icons from Google's Material Design set.
Read more at https://www.jonathanreeveprice.com/index.htmhttps://www.jonathanreeveprice.com/index.htm
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Doors open 6:30 pm - complimentary pizza, wine, refreshments
Reading starts aprx 7 pm
followed by audience conversation
$12 per ticket - audience limit is 15 VIP seats on our Back Porch.
This performance will be outside under our covered patio. In case of inclement weather, we will be inside. Books by the authors will be for sale. Poetry Playhouse gallery and bookstore will be open.
We pair up two poets to share their latest work (this portion is recorded for our YouTube archive available free to the public) and follow with a conversation. This is a time for you to ask your own questions and to get to know the authors better as they share their artistic process, their writing, and what they’re up to. A personal approach - and of course, books by the authors are also for sale, and for signing.
This is an in-person event with limited seating. Price of event includes pizza from local Placitas Pizza, wine, and assorted beverages. (We order one pizza with gluten free/cauliflower crust, and have veggie pizza options).
Scott Wiggerman joins us from Albuquerque. He is a retired librarian and a late-life artist who coordinates the annual Poets Picnic in Albuquerque. His poetry focuses on many forms—not only ghazals and golden shovels, but also sonnets, haiku, and haibun. He teaches workshops on different poetic forms and is active in the literary community. Scott is a former chapter chair for the NM State Poetry Society. His latest book is Beginning and Ending with Emily: Ghazals and Golden Shovels, published by New Mexico’s Casa Urraca press.
Scott Wiggerman plays with two poetic forms—ghazals and golden shovels—and draws inspiration from Emily Dickinson poems to create fresh works entirely his own. https://casaurracapress.com/bookstore/p/beginning-and-ending-with-emily-poems-scott-wiggerman
Jonathan Price joins us from Albuquerque and is the incoming New Mexico State Poetry Society Chapter Chair. Jonathan worked in conceptual art and concrete poetry, showing in co-op galleries and museums in New York. While living in Soho, he wrote articles on video art for The Nation, Art News, Esquire, and Harper’s, and published books on theater, writing, and video art. For four years, he ran the Shakespeare Institute, a summer program for teachers and graduate students, in conjunction with the University of Bridgeport and the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut.
He quit the art world to join Apple Computer in 1982, where the introduction of MacPaint was a life-changing event for him. He created a style guide used for many years by technical communicators--How to Write an Apple Manual, later published in several editions under the title, How to Communicate Technical Information. He also led a guerilla movement within Apple to create the first online help systems, using HyperCard, a forerunner of the links we take for granted on the web.
His art combines high-tech imagery with poetry. His series of digital art pieces on the struggles that migrants face as they come north to cross the Rio Grande, documented in his book, The Liquid Border: The Rio Grande from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico, has appeared in more than two dozen museums and art galleries throughout the U.S. He has written a tribute to Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji, accompanied by a digital remixing of those ukiyo-e prints, sprinkled with text chunks commenting on the artist's work, in Viewing Hokusai Viewing Mount Fuji. In Icons: Poems Price examines computer icons, reminisces about creating the first graphic interfaces at Apple in the 1980s, and dialogs with the contemporary icons from Google's Material Design set.
Read more at https://www.jonathanreeveprice.com/index.htmhttps://www.jonathanreeveprice.com/index.htm
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